“Where am I from? I’m from Asian America, from the Yellow Peril and the Chinese Exclusion Act. I’m from Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee movies, and I don’t know any sort of martial arts, but I’m handy with a switchblade. I am a Flushing Chinatown and Midtown Charlotte bastard, reared on root beer and hotpot. I’m made of mud and rice fields and the splinters from takeout bamboo chopsticks if you don’t sand them together first.”

— “Where Are You From?” (Hear Our Voices, May 2023)